insulted - Story 75537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the quietest thing that had ever happened. A letter arriving in the post, and a few sentences that seemed to steal the air. Alex felt his chest constrict. It was a cruel trick of fate.

He folded the letter neatly, then crumpled it. He threw it at the trash, but missed. He sat there, his shoulders slumped. The world seemed to fade away.

Later, he walked for miles, aimlessly. His feet ached. His throat felt tight.

Emotion: insulted

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.98 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.46

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion insulted. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 insulted stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the insulted emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the insulted vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.354
`骂`	0.277
`愤`	0.267
`C`	0.237
`🤬`	0.233

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.325
`давно`	-0.229
`adventurous`	-0.223
`soon`	-0.219
`optimistic`	-0.217